On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:38:10AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> That doesn't make sense to me. Running or not running doesn't make any
> difference for adding services. Inetd has to be told to reload for any new
> configuration.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.

Yes, we could change the rc.conf default from inetd=YES to inted=NO.
That would add an additional step to enabling inetd based services, where
most howtos just say "add this line to /etc/inetd.conf and send a SIGHUP to
your inetd".

This has been discussed quite some time ago. The result is the current state.

Maby we should re-evaluate that descision, now that the NetBSD way to do
it would be: add this line to /etc/inetd.conf an do /etc/rc.d/inetd status
to check if it's already running, if so run /etc/rc.d./inetd.reload. Otherwise
add "inetd=YES" to /etc/rc.conf and run /etc/rc.d/inetd start.

This is a bit more inconvenient (and more complex). And running an "empty"
inetd does not do real harm.

This is the first time it appeared to me that I was running several of my 
machines with inetd enabled but no services served by it.

Martin